Aspie teen is named Homecoming Princess — for link, see message

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Aspie teen is named Homecoming Princess —

http://www.google.com/search?q=Sampson+has+been+voted+homecoming+princess+at+her\

+high+school+in+Poway+in+southern+California.++has+Asperger’s+Syndrome

Kate Gladstone

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Good for her!

D.

Aspie teen is named Homecoming Princess — for

link, see message

Aspie teen is named Homecoming Princess —

http://www.google.com/search?q=Sampson+has+been+voted+homecoming+princess+at+her\

+high+school+in+Poway+in+southern+California.++has+Asperger’s+Syndrome

Kate Gladstone

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> It seems a shame to me to make a big deal of her

> disability in the whole thing.

I agree that the " asperger's " part was over-emphasized, but I

think there is a tie-in there. The majority of students

apparently already identified her social skills as related to

autism, but the response was to " follow through " with the prank

by voting for her. They did so because they apparently accepted

the autism as affecting social skills and regarded the prank

(the nomination) as inappropriate. They also determined that

she was worthy of being elected.

I think, long term, the group statement is that, despite social

ineptness, that they accept her. Socially.

- s0